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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

This week we're featuring some of the sweetest, cutest, most adorable, lovable, um... [consulting thesaurus] darling, bewitching, and fetching baby animal cakes you ever will see. Why? Well, if you must know, I'm feeling a bit sensitive this week.

This is john, by the way.

So, let me just get my box of tissues and we'll do this thing. Starting with Jen's favorite:

Zooborns, one of our favorite so-cute-it-hurts websites, has given us two of their new books to give to two of you loyal wreckies!

One's for little kids:

And the other's for everyone else who likes cute:

(Click on the pics for more info)

We'll be giving away one copy of each, so feel free to tell us in the comments which you'd prefer. Two winners will be randomly chosen from the comments tonight at midnight EST, so stay tuned on FB or check this spot again tomorrow for the announcement of the winners!

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------UPDATE!!!! The random number generator hath spoken! The winners are:

GrammaR @ 2:20 PM for the first book andAi @ 8:51 PM for the second!

Please email your addresses to comments (at) cakewrecks.com so we can mail out your prizes. And thanks to everyone for your great comments!

Wreck On!-john (the hubby of Jen)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Have a Sweet to nominate? Then send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.

Reader Comments (1432)

Those were all really adorable! Hard to think of Chthulu as cute, but she totally made it so! Both of those Zooborn books are really cool, maybe I would prefer the second one. However, either of them would be welcome in my library and enjoyed by my entire family.

After I finished reading this post and moved on to a new tab, something started niggling at me. And the something is this:Koalas eat eucalyptus leaves, not pandas. Pandas eat bamboo. I mean I know your pandas are of the Russian Nesting variety, but eucalyptus trees grow in Australia so they're about as not-Russian as you can get...?

i am so taken with these cakes today. each one is just oh-so-cute!!! i am unable to pick a favorite, tho the 1st, 2nd, and last really stand out for me. (especially all the polka dot work on the 2nd cake -- i am a sucker for that.)

oh, and all this cuteness AND a giveaway! that'd be awesome! (the first one please.)

I would love the second book. My boyfriend and I have been looking for the perfect coffee table book and what's better than a book of cute animals? We read cake blogs every day and we love your Sunday Sweets =]

I think both books look wonderful, and the niece who's having a baby tomorrow would appreciate either...but my daughter says that baby foxes aren't nearly as cute when they're first born...so the first book, please. And thank you!